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Nobel winner to 'bury medal'

Japanese Nobel physics laureate Toshihide Maskawa said yesterday he planned to bury his medal in the ground as the camera-shy professor returned from the ceremony in Sweden.

Maskawa, who has charmed Japan with his eccentricities, made his first-ever foreign trip to collect the prize. He said he had never gone to conferences abroad as he was petrified about speaking English.